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VOL. XIX. NO. 30.
McCONNELLSBURG, PA., APRIL 1J, 1918.
$1.50 A YEAR.
RECORD OF DEATHS.
flort Sketches of the Lives of Per
sons Who Have Recently
Passed Away.
Mrs. M. L. Sipes.
Mra Catharine Jane Moore
Qlnpa. wife of Rev. Maaon L.
cinp.q died at her home in Earls-
ton, Bedford County on Monday,
April 1, 1918, after an illness of
cfce week of pneumonia, aged
I years, 11 months and 20 days.
Deceased was a daughter of
illiam and Mary Bates Moore
j id was born in Todd township,
I llton County April 12, 1844.
jgust21, 1861, she was united in
t arriage with Rev. M. L. Sipes,
t id this union was blessed with
i ne children, one son, David,
i d one daughter, Blanche, pre
t ded their parents to the world
yond. The surviving chil
t en are Burton and Howard, of
C irwensville. Dolly, of New
)rk City, Mrs. H. I. O'Neal,
c West Providence township,
I rs. H. J. Wagoner, of Cumber
k nd, Maryland, Mrs. Charles P.
C t, of Everett, and Miss Hattie,
a home.
Mrs. Sipes enjoyed a large
a quaintanceship and had en
d ared herself to ahost of friends,
an of whom will sincerely regret
J learn of her death. For many
ylars she had been an active and
insistent member of the Christ
ian denomination. She was a
lipod woman in the broadest
ijnseandwasa kind and de-
ited wife and mother. Her
nd deeds and affectionate re-
ird for her family will linger
g in the memory of all who
iew her.
Funeral services conducted by
1 5V. Robert J. Allen, Pastor of
e Methodist Church, assisted
VRev. E. E. Sponsler, were
i Id at the home on Wednesday
n 3 p.m., in the presence of
arrowing relatives and many
b; mpathizing friends. Interment
was made in the family plot in
E verett Cemetery. Everett Re
F iblican.
Brown C. Dawney.
As was briefly mentioned in
t e News last week, Brown C.
I iwney died at hi3 home in
Jiiladelphia on Monday morning,
)ril 1, 1918, after a lingering
ness from tuberculosis, aged
tout 55 years.
Brown was a son of the late
mjamin F. Dawney, a promi
mt farmer in Taylor township
is county, and spent several
ars of his early manhood as a
acher in the public schools in
is county, and for a time, teach
g in McConnellsburg. He was
arried to Miss Stella, Davis, a
Mghter of the late Mr. and
rs. Chailis Davis, of Saluvia,
lnsuivives, together with two
lughters, Edna and Winifred,
3th at home; also by four broth
's, Harry, John, Montague and
cott all residing in Chicago.
The funeral took place on the
Allowing Thursday, and inter-
lent was made in Philadelphia.
For a number of years Brown
" as an efficient clerk in the Penn
dvania Railroad offices at
roadstreet Station in Philadel-
hia. He was a member of the
oyal Arcanum and one of the
ew who stuck to it-now to the
jdvantage of his family.
Harried Yesterday.
Charlie Hixson and family re
eived an invitation a few days
0 to attend thn weddinc nf
fharlie's brother Watson at
ptena, 111. on Wednesday.
Pril 10, 1918. The imporant
pent was announced to take
pee at the home of the bride'i
Parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. G
l-ownes in that citv. and the
ride wea their daughter Miss
Carrie Amelia. The happy cou
rts will be "at home" after
Wil 25th at 174 South Green
ood Avenue, Kankakee, 111,
he groom is a former MeCnn
Pellshurv
County pedagogue, and has the
'Ongratulations of his numerous
t Mek-home" friends.
DO YOUR 81T.
Biiy a Bond if Ytu Can; Buy a Stamp
if You Can't; Eat Bay
Something.
Philadelphia, April 10. The
good effect which it was felt the
Liberty Loan Drive would exert
upon the War Savings Stamps
campaign is already beginning to
be felt. On the first two days of
the drive the receipts from the
sale of stamps at the Philadelphia
post office exceeded any similar
period recently. The organiza
tion of War Savings Societies is
going on apace and increased in
terest is shown as a result of the
activities or the loan boomers.
To date 4074 societies in the
Eastern district of Pennsylvania
have received charters from the
Treasury Department at Wash
ington, with a membership in
excess of 150,000. Many more
societies have been formed but
they have not applied for char
rers. In a few days figures will
be announced of the activities of
these societies and some surpris
ing results are promised.
"Buy a bond if you can; buy a
stamp if you can't." That sen
timent sums up the attitude of
the National and State War Sav
ings Committees toward the
Third Liberty Loan. In other
words, while the War Savings
Committee is to offer every en
couragement to the sale of Liber
ty Bonds, and is to direct much
of its machinery to promoting
the loan during the period of flo
tation, it is anxious that its own
campaign shall not be lost sight
of in that time. Moat particular
ly it urges that the patriotic im
pulse may not be wasted in those
who are moved to buy bonds but
find themselves financially unable
to do so.
Without discouraging the buy
ing of bonds the savings com
mittee is aware that there are
some who cannot invest in them,
and it does not believe there is a
man, woman or child in the Uni
ted States who cannot buy at
east one War Savings or Thrift
Stamp. Moreover, during the
oan campaign when all the pub
icity machines of the Qountry will
be turned to stimulating patriotic
response to the Government's
need for money to carry on the
war, the committee believes it
only proper that there shall be a
channel into which patriotic emo
tion may be diverted in the cases
of those whose impulse to pos
sess Government bonds is phys
ically incapable of satisfaction.
Our Soldier Boys.
On account of the development
of physical disability, Orlen
Mock, one of the four men first
sent from this county to Camp
Lee, has been honorably dis
charged from the Service and
has returned home. George
Reisner, who left with the boys
last week, was accepted in his
final examination at Camp for
limited service only. George
has had about as hard time get
ting into the service, as some
others have had to keep out.
On the first two examinations,
George was rejected; then, the
third, which was taken in Kan
sas, he passed, and now on the
"final" he passes on "condi
tions." While it was heart
trouble with Orlen; it is ear
trouble with George.
Bonner Regi and Ralph Lin-
inger, both of Camp Lee, are at
home a few days on furlough.
Sipes Schooley.
Mr. Riley Sipes, son of Mrs.
Fannie Sipes, and Miss Ethel
Schooley daughter of Mrs. Katie
Schooley both of Licking Creek
township, were married at the
home of the bride's mother on
Wednesday, April 3, 1918, by
their pastor, Rev. E. J. Croft, of
theM. E. Church. The bride
and groom are among the town
ship's very best young people
and have the best wishes of a
wide circle of friends.
Subicnbo for too JNiws.
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT ELECTED.
Prof. J. Emory Thomas Succeeds
Himself for Another Term of
Four Years.
Notwithstanding the blizzard
ous condition of the weather
fifty of the sixty school directors
in the County were present,
when the Convention was called
to order in the Court House
Tuesday afternoon for the pur
pose of electing a County Super
intendent of schools to serve
during the ensuing term of four
years. But two names were
presented to the convention,
that of the piesent incumbent,
l'HOF. J. i:. MIOMAS.
Prof. J. Emory Thomas, and
Prof. Harper P.. Barton of Hus
tontown. A ballot showed twenty-nine
votes for Thomas and twenty-one
'or Barton.
The minimum salary fixed by
law is two thousand dollars a
year, and the convention did not
think it wise to add anything to
it at this time.
Both candidates are splendid
school men. One of the directors
said, "I wish I could have voted
for both" really expressed the
feeling of many others.
150,000 More Men Called
Washington, April 7-Amer-
ica inaugurated her second year
of the great war iast night with
a call to service of 150,000 men.
Orders were sent out by the
provost marshall general to ev
ery state asking that quotas be
ready to move to camp between
April 2G and May 1. The call
includes 116,700 whites and 33,
300 negroes the largest single
draft mobilization of the war.
This is three times the number
it was originally planned to call,
and is nearly twice the monthly
quota as based on the calling of
800,000 men over a period of nine
months.
With the mobilization order,
General Crowder sent a notice
calling the attention of local
boards to the ruling that the in
duction of necessary farm labor
should be deferred until after
harvest.
The call put grim emphasis up
on President Wilaon's address in
Baltimore last night, when he
answered in kind Germany's
threat of peace by force.
Pennsylvania will send the
largest number under yester
day's order, followed closely in
this respect by Ohio and New
York. The Pennsylvania allot
ment is 10.956, Ohio's is 19,302,
and New York's is 10,171.
Look Out! -
The cop'll get you if you don't
look out; for the Committee of
Public Safety announces the
following additional Volunteer
Policemen for this county:
Todd Township, Samuel M.
Pittman, Washington Kelso, S.
R. Cromer, Elmer Glunt, Wil
liam H. Wible, William Kerlin
and B. Frank Wible.
Union Township, Clem Leh
man, S. E. McKee, Jesse A.
Cavender, S. G. Lashley, George
F. Diehl, James C. Deneen, Gil
bert B. Mellott. Charles A.
Gienger and E. C. Hendershot.
This makes a total of fifty-
three policemen named by Gov
ernor Brumbaugh for Fulton
County,
hmt 'Pm
NINE BILLIONS A YEAR.
Tea Dollars a Year for Each Mao,
Woman and Child in the Uni
ted Stat-.s.
According to figures given out
by the Government, nine billion
dollars is the approximate cost to
the United States of one year of
war.
How much is a billion?
A million is a thousand-thousand,
and a billion is a thousand
millions. If a machine had been
set to work coining silver dollars
simultaneously with the birth of
Adam (the first man) and it had
worked continuously day and
night to this time, there would be
fewer than three billion coined. .
Since, the population of the
United States is 100 millions, it
means that it is costing every
man, woman and child in the
Country a ten-dullar bill a year.
, More than one half has gone
in loans to Allies and will be re
paid eventually; over one-third
has been spent for the army and
military establishment; one-tenth
for the navy and cne-fifteenth for
shipbuilding.
Just one-sixth of the big war
cott has been raided by taxatiun
an(' other ordinary sources, and
the balance has come from sale
of LWrty Bonds and certificates
of indt Redness.
E'lorn, '3 as these war ex
penditures? :.iay seem to a country
whose goven.mfnt in peace times
cost between $700,000,000 and
$800,000,000, they are less than
Great Britain's and are only
about two-thirds of estimates
made by cflicals less than a year
afc'o. Slow progress of the ship
building programme and the re
tarding of the outpouring of war
supplies are regarded by officials
as the chief reasons why ex
penses did not equal estimates.
Government expenses now are
running about a million dollars a
month, with somewhat less than
half going to Allies, who spend
the greater part of their loans for
war supplies in this country.
Since the declaration of war,
April 6, 1917, the government's
actual expenditures have been
more than $9,800,000,000 but
about $800,000,000 of this sum
would have been spent for normal
activities even if the United
States" had not entered the war.
Ordinary expenditures, under
which the Treasury classifies all
outlays for operation of the gov
ernmental machinery and war
enterprises, since the declaration
of war have been approximately
$5,084,000,000. Actual payments
to Allies amounted to $4, 743, 000,-
000.
Income from internal revenue,
most of which is represented by
war taxes, and from customs and
miscellaneous sources, was run
up to about $1,535 000,000 and
the two Liberty Loans have
brought to the Treasury a little
less than $5,800,000,000. Small
collections from war savings and
thrift stamps in the last four
months amounts to $140,000,000.
There are a number of other
minor receipts and expenditures,
but they do not materially affect
the condition of the public offer.
Outlays for redemption of certif
icates of indebtedness, although
appearing large on paper, actual
ly mean little to the government
in the long run, since certificates
represent short time loans pub
lic borrowings which are repaid
within three months.
About $3,200,000,000 of certif
icates of indebtedness are now
outstanding and will be redeem
ed at various times within the
next few months. This means
that the Treasury has received
this amount to cover running ex
penses, but will have to repay it
soon out of receipts from taxes
due in June, and from the Third
Liberty Loan.
Financial experts of the gov
ernment calculate that the war
has cost in dollars even more than
thg formal Treasury figures show
on account of increased expendi
tures of many State and local
governments under war condi-
Will Mature in Tea Years.
The third issue of Liberty Loan
bonds will mature in ten years
on September 15, 1928 and will
bear interest from May 9 next,
payable semi-annually on Sept
ember 15 and March 15. '
Instead of requiring two per
cent., cash payment with the sub
scription, as in the second loan,
five per cent, will be asked for
the third loan. Twenty per cent,
then will be due May 28, thirty
five per cent. July 18 and forty
per cent, August 15.
The payment dates have been
arranged so none will come in
June, when the drain on the
country's financial resources will
be great on account of income
and excess profits taxes due June
15. In the second loan eighteen
per cent, was due two weeks aft
er the campaign closed, forty per
cent, a month later and forty per
cent, one month after that.
The third loan campaign will
last for four week3, beginning
last Saturday and ending
May 4th. Banks will be
given five days after the cam
paign's elope to tabulate and re
port subscriptions.
A Rupgestion that church and
charitable organizations pay
their debts with Liberty bonds
instead of cash has been made by
the woman's national Liberty
Loan committee.
Germany's Treatment of Norway.
Germany cannot get at all na
tions with her armies, but she
can complete her black record as
the common foe of the world on
the sea. Her submarine opera
tions are those of a safe.
Heretofore neutral countries
have had established rights.
They have none now or none
that Germany will respect To
comprehend her barbarity and
her utter contempt for inter
national law it is only necessary
to recall the experience of Nor
way. There is a country that
has desired to keep out of the
turmoil. She ha3 tried to live up
to neutrality, and yet the sub
marines of Germany have de
stroyed 745 of her vessels with a
tonnage estimated at 1,101,815.
She has a right to live, has
Norway; aright to send her ships
overseas for food and products
that she needs, and yet many a
hardy Norwegian navigator
has had his craft sunk beneath
his feet because he has defied the
German assassin who has denied
his absolute right to sail the
ocean in the lawful service of
his neutral country.
There is but one way to re
establish liberty, independence
and international law and to
make the world safe for Norway
and every other country Presi
dent Wilson has pointed it out.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Relief of Soldiers and tailors.
It may be of interest to the
friends and dependents of Sol
diers and Sailors from Fulton
County to know that Congress
has recently passed a bill, the
provisions of which are designed
to protect men now in the Uni
ted States service from financial
loss due to their absence from
home, or inability to meet their
obligations. Any persons who
wish to take advantage of the
provisions of this law should
correspond with
W. C. Patterson
McConnellsburg Pa
Ch. Civ. Relief Com.
Mr. E. O. Kesselring, while
not a director, came to town
Tuesday. Mr. Kesselring has
served as school director, has
been in several conventions, and
it seemed quite natural to be on
hand.
tions. They do not venture to es
timate the aggregate of these ex
penses, however. On the other
hand, the war has resulted in in
numerable economies, public,
private and personal enforced
partly by rising costs and partly
by organized movements.
CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS.
Richard W. Williamson, Esq, Hakes
Personal Statement to the Yoters
of the 17th. District.
I again seek the Republican
nomination lor Congress in this
District and desire it to be known
that I pledge myself to always
put my Country before my Party
and I shall ever stand for such
measures as will support and
sustain evidently, In ita fullest
aonse, our land and naval forces.
I believe woman's activitea in
the Great War have effectively
and speedily brought about a
condition winch no juslv rec
ogoizos woman's right to suf
frage I Mgncd a Pol Urn re
questing the Member of Uou
grcss from this District to vote
:.y
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h.' -I- J if. .;''.
R.W.'WILI.IAMSON.
for suffrage bccau.se I believe
the vote when taken in Pennsyl
vania was not a fair test nor does
ibat vote now represent the sen
limeut as it now exiats in the
Dialnct. I tirmly believe the ma
jority of the voters of this Dis
trict favor giving to women the
right to vote.
I am strongly in favor of the
National Prohibition Amendment
and, had I been in Congress,
would have also voted tor the Bill
making the District ot Colum
bia dry and all other Prohibition
Bills. I pledge myself to support
such measures as may be neces
sary to properly enforce the
Prohibitou Aineudtuent.
1 confess to an honorable am
bition to represent in Congress
this great big homogeneous Dis
trict of more that. 200 0l'0
Liberty Loving God Fearing peo
pie. A District having within its
confines many, many citizjns
quite capable of ably represent
iog it in -Congress. My own
County of Huntindon is the Ban
uer Republican Countv ot the
District.
Two years ago Mr. Focht got
the Prohibition nomination by
getting live votes. Three Pro
hibitionists were good enough to
put my name on their Ticket, the
present Congressman thus get
ting a Prohibition vote at the
General Election of 535. He car
ried the District by a plurality ot
1250. Of this plurality, be got
106 in Huntingdon County 923
ou the Republican Ticket and 113
on the Prohibition Ticko v. ' in
other words, Mr. Focht came to
Huntingdon county with a paltry
plurality of but 114.
By the census of 1910. Union
County's population was 16249
audthatof Humiugdon County
38304. For twelve years,
we in Huntingdon County
have been supporting Union
County's candidate, who now
seeks his Seventh Nomination at
the hands of his Party. Hunt
ingdon County has not had a
Congressman for thirty six
years. I have always ben an
active Republican and appeal to
all factions of the Party for their
support believing my nomination
will harmonize the discordant
elements in the Party, and sure
ly invite less opposition in No
vember than will the giving of a
Seventh Nomination to Mr.
Focht. All over the District, you
constantly bear staunch loyal
Republicans say 'Mr. Focht
haibad enough." If 1 were
VICTIMS OF THF KEROSENE CAN.
When O People Learn Not" to Fool
With Coal Oil in Building Fires
in Stoves?
About 5:30 o'clock Monday
morning, Mrs. David Hocken
berry went to the kitchen at her
home in Waynesboro to make
fire in the cook stove prepara
tory to getting breakfast. She
placed some kindling in the
stove, poured some kerosene on
it, threw a lighted match into
the stove, put on the lid and
got busy with her other work.
On going to the stove later, and
finding that the fire was not
burning, she pic!:ed up the can
and poured more kerosene on the
wood. Instantly there was m
explosion. The burning -
osene flew over Mrs. H i .en-
berry'a body, setting her cloth-
ng on fire. When the explo-
ion occurred, William Hocken-
ticrry cr.me into the kitchen and
wa3 also covered with the burn-
i ig oil. Both ran out into the
yard, hoping to smother their
burning clothing. The husband,
David Hockenberry, came upon
thp frightful scene as the vic
tims ran into the yard. After
hard w. k he succeeded in put
ting out the flames that envelop
ed his wife, but not until nearly
all her clothing was burned from
her body.
Mrs. Hccken berry was fo
frightfully burned that she could
not be removed to a hospital,
and lingered on in most intense
suffering until 1 o'clock in the
afternoon, when death came to
her relief. She was aged 42
years and leaves a husband and
four small children.
The Money Comes Back.
The cycle of money invested in
Liberty Bonds is Bhort and com
plete. The people lend the
money to the Government, the
Government lends some to our
Allies, and our Government and
our Allies straightway spend the
money, or the greater portion of
it. among the people of the Uni
ted States. In some instances
the money paid in by wage earn
ers on one installment of Liberty
Bonds is paid by the Government
to their employers, and by their
employers paid back to them in
the way of wages before' the
next Bond installment is due.
Buy Liberty Bonds.
Mrs. James H. Feagley and
daughter Blanche and sons
George and John Hockenberry,
accompanied by Mrs. A. W.
Deshong and daughter Helen-
all of Andover, motored to Bed
ford last Saturday and were
guests in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Bowser on South
Richard street until Sunday aft
ernoon. Mrs. Feagley and Mr9.
Bowser are sisters.
seeking my seventh nomination
they would rightly say the same
of me.
I point with pride to the won
derful majority I got two years
ago in my own native County of
Uuntiugdon. Due to the long
and heavy rain in the late after
noon, the vote was greatly re
duced. As it was I got a major
ity of 923 In a total vote of 2047
on Congress. Here in my own
native County of Huntingdon
most generously did all the lac
Lions of the Party support me.
Whai better testimony can I
offer the Republican voters of
the Seventeenth District than
the Wonderful Home Endorse
ment I got two years ago. ' Ever
grateful for the splendid tribute
given me at home and for the
staunch and loyal support given
me in the other counties of the
District where I knew few if any
of the voters. I again submit my
canvass to the voters of the Dis
trict promising always a prompt
faithful and studious attention to
all the Interests of the people cf
this District.
. Respectfully submitted
; KicuuRp W, Williamson
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.
April 4th 1918.